This is the plaque for the presidential portrait gallery for Joe Biden.

  • flandish@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    so there’s a line that’s defines “significant?”

    because yeah. 40 years ago houses were affordable. but govs were still fire bombing city blocks in philly because some brown people upset them.

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      3 days ago

      Really bad, but the difference is the volume and scale. US government oppressing ethnic minorities is a horrible act, but not a new one. US government deliberately oppressing a large fraction of the majority is.

      Doesn’t make it better or worse, but it is a marked shift

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        3 days ago

        right. thats my point. there isn’t a scale such as a binary, thus it has never been a “good” (as in healthy) nation, in its black and white (again a binary) form.

        i’m just trying to push a rhetoric that stops folks from pining for day bygone that were better. they have never been better, just different

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          3 days ago

          contrasting two tail ends of a continuous spectrum still points to a shift, and the availability to place a wide threshold between them does imply a certain level of robustness when used as a binary classification